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...Jeremiah (by Stefan Zweig; produced by The Theatre Guild). Biblical narratives have a way of being made into "plays" and coming out Biblical narratives. Jeremiah illustrates the jinx. When Zweig wrote it, as an Austrian pacifist in 1916, Jeremiah's thundering against Israel's war of conquest had tremendous timeliness. It might have tremendous usefulness today if it could be produced in Fascist countries. But simply as a play it is ponderous, labored, rhetorical. For the glow of Biblical diction it substitutes "Whither away?" and other pidgin Elizabethan. For the intensity of an ancient people, it substitutes stage...
...Only Jeremiah himself (Kent Smith) emerges with any dignity and strength-and he not as a person but as a kind of booming voice. Unfortunately, at the Guild Theatre, as in Zion of old, it is a voice crying in the wilderness...
...waving around, but he hasn't fired a shot. He just goes on filling his journal with fatuous, trite, sentimental, philistine, ingenuous, graphic practice notes: about newspaper jobs in Cleveland, San Francisco, Denver, everything from news happenings to a synopsis of his novel (a stupendous family chronicle from Jeremiah I to Jeremiah IV), from election returns to querulous data on his wife's raising the baby on candy, from denunciations of automobiles and airplanes to pompous credos favoring Democracy. Typical of his talent is his alibi for hanging around his Kansas City landlady's daughter: "When...
...professional rank the Committee will undoubtedly consider George Owen '23, Bruins' player and present coach at M. I. T. and Huge Harrington, present Olympics mentor. Since Dartmouth last year gave the post of head hockey coach to Eddy Jeremiah and Yale has this year named for the position Murray Murdock, both professional stars, the Committee is expected to look over Cooney Welland of the Bruins, Harvard assistant coach in 1932, Fred Hitchman of the Bruins a few years ago, and Bun Cook and Frank Boucher of the Rangers...
...Association. Labor's George Harrison suggested that the Government grant the railroads an outright subsidy sufficient to bring their revenues to the normal $800,000,000 a year. This might mean a Government outlay of as much as $465,000,000, would presumably be produced by RFC. John Jeremiah Pelley of the Association of American Railroads nodded in approval. So did his committee of presidents: Frederick Ely Williamson of the New York Central, Ernest Eden Norris of the Southern, Samuel Thomas Bledsoe of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa...